Sidney & Saanich Peninsula Audited Circulation 12,933 An Island Publishers Newspaper Wednesday August 8, 1990 40¢ C BUSINESS Al2 CALENDAR B2 CLASSIFIEDS A17 COMMUNITY Bl GARDENING A13 OPINION A68 | SPORTS B4 OUTDOORS Ald BEYER A8 GRENBY Al2 LANG Al3 MUSGRAVE Ai6 NASH = AZT TOP OF THE PILE A7 HAMPSON B15 Review office hours The Review's office, at 9781-Second Street in Sidney, is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Mailing address is Box 2070, Sidney, B.C., V8l. 3S5 — Second class mall registration number 0128. ~ Highway blockade statements not supported by Glenn Werkman The Review Peninsula bands have no inten- tion of blocking roads, Tsartlip native Indian band Chief Daniel Sam: said last week while refuting recent statements made by South Island Tribal Council chairman Tom Sampson. “We have no interest in ever doing a roadblock,” Sam said. “There are ways around it by negotiating with the mght people and it would be too much of an inconvenience for our neighbors. “T firmly believe we can accom- plish what we want without con- frontation,” Sam said. He is upset at statements Samp- son made in the daily media, threatening to shut off the Island and blockade the Pat Bay Highway — impeding access to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal and the Victoria Airport — if provincial and feder- al authorities didn’t meet in Esqui- malt Friday with representatives of 10 Vancouver Island bands, including the four Peninsula bands. ‘i “T have nothing against Tom Sampson but I’m the elected chief of Tsartlip,’ Sam said. “He doesn’t come to our (band coun- cil) meetings or discuss things he’s going to do concerning the Saa- nich people.” Sampson was incorrectly identi- fied as the Tsartlip band chief in a recent news article in the daily newspaper, Sam said. “T want to be individual here in Saanich — I want to see the Saanich Tribal Council work together without split decisions like now with the South Island,” Sam said. The South Island Tribal Council currently works as an administrat- or for federal funding between bands and Indian Affairs for native services including housing and social assistance, he said. Tsartlip band member Marie Cooper was very concerned Friday after reading the daily newspaper. “J was very concerned this morning when I read the headline on the front page regarding a possible major demonstration involving the transportation net- work from the Island to the Main- land, . . . and this kind of activity is going to happen where I live,” Cooper said. “This will affect our communi- ties. I resent having to read about a major action plan in the newspa- per referring specifically to the four Saanich bands,” she said. “My concern here is that a half-dozen have made a decision for a large amount of people,” she said. Tsawout Chief Louis Claxton said there are no plans to block the Pat Bay Highway but he sees no problem with Sampson speaking for Saanich bands as a spokesman , for the South Island Tribal Coun- Continued on Page A2 Rare plants threatened by more development by Mare Davis The Review Rare plants growing on the Peninsula are being threatened with extinction due to housing developments, a botany expect said recently. Royal B.C. Museum curator Dr. Robert Ogilvie said up to 100 rare and endangered species of plant could be at risk. “The Saanich Peninsula is espe- cially vulnerable as far as these plant species are concerned,” he said. He said the natural habitat of many of the plants has already been destroyed in Victoria. And the Peninsula faces the same bleak outlook if the rate cf urban development does not slow down, Ogilvie said. “Tf this rate of expansion contin- ues without further protection, a good number of (the flower spe- cies) will not be able to survive,” he said. Of particular concern is the Macoun’s meadow foams, a tiny plant which cannot be found any- where in the world outside of British Columbia, he said. Most of these rare species are found on rocky bluffs and hillsides where Garry oak trees are located, he said. The plants, he said, prefer the same dry Mediterranean type of habitats the Garry oaks thrive on, and they are usually found concen- Continued on Page A2 No signs but notices coming The operator of the Port of Sidney marina has rejected a plea by a Third Street resident to erect ‘No Flushing in the Bay’ signs. But written notices that flushing is prohibited will be given to all users of the marina, said Gary Langstaff, Granville West's mari- via manager. “We're going to give written notices to all persons entering the marina encouraging the boaters not use heads or flush in the basin,’ Langstaff said. Third Street resident John Salva- dor pressed Sidney council to have signs erected at the entrance to the marina informing boaters that flushing is not allowed. Council members verbally. sup- ported the concept but did not make a formal motion to have signs put up, merely receiving Salvador’s letter, July 9. Salvador asked council to insti- tute Fisheries Act requirements of small vessels berthing at the Port of Sidney to have holding tanks or porto-potties on board, because there is little or no flushing action in the bay created by the breakwa- ter. Langstaff said: “The main thing is (0 communicate to boaters that there will be no flushing of heads in the marina. “We're just having written notices printed up,” Langstaff said. ““Our responsibility is to make sure the marina area stays as clean as possible and it’s as much a concer to us as it is to residents near the marina.” A sewage pump-out facility for holding tanks will be installed at the port by the end of the month, Langstaff said. The facility will be installed “at great expense’ and will allow the holding tanks aboard boats to be pumped out into the Town’s sew- age system, Langstaff said. The idea of putting signs up was rejected because Langstaff said all boaters will not necessarily see the signs or abide by them. “We want to use the most effec- tive way,” he said. Funds approved for new school Tenders to build a new mid- dle school at Gowdy Road and Stellys Crossroad, to replace Saanich School District’s Mt Newton Middle School, will go } out within the week. School District 63 board chairman Marilyn Loveless said the board was notified Wednesday that funding for the school was approved by the province’s Treasury Board. Tenders are to go out this week for return by mid- September and Loveless expects the contract will be awarded soon after. The new school will house up to 750 students in Grades 6 to 8, replacing the present school which was built in 1931. The board originally hoped the school would be completed by September 1991, however Loveless said the project is now behind schedule. “September 1991 would be optimistic now,” she said.